My Mother Didn’t Know Her Friend Had Murdered His Entire Family.

It was 1943; how was she to know he was on the run?

Christine Schoenwald
6 min readNov 19, 2020

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According to my mother, life used to be much simpler when she was growing up in the 1930s and 40s. They didn’t have the same kind of violence and anger that we do now.

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Christine Schoenwald

Writer for The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Next Avenue, Business Insider, and Your Tango Christineschoenwaldwriter.com